This resource appears to be designed to build towards this disciplinary core idea, though the resource developer has not explicitly stated so.Ĭomments about Including the Disciplinary Core Idea There are also other enrichment suggestions list in the educator guide. However this would potentially lengthen the lesson, as this lesson is meant to be taught in a 50 min time period. Allowing students to argue from evidence would also give the teacher a chance to check for understanding and common misconceptions. This could also be an opportunity to have students argue from evidence. To enrich this lesson a teacher may want to add a discussion piece in order to make the students ideas public. At the end of the lesson students to apply what they have learned to a new situation. Students are asked to go back and revise their ideas after new information is given and to also consider what else they might need to know. Throughout the lesson students will make observations and analyze data from different sources in order to make a claim for natural selection. The activity does address the full element of this practice and students will use the different ideas and data sets in order to create an explanation. This resource is explicitly designed to build towards this science and engineering practice.Ĭomments about Including the Science and Engineering Practice Students could engage in this practice and use the information from the movie as evidence to support their claim. Another suggestion would be to ask students which of the four mechanisms was most responsible for the shift in fur color in order to argue from evidence. An example would be how limiting space be a resource and why would that be important. Students use a chart in order to identify and document these four mechanisms of natural selection and later use this data as evidence to support their reasoning.Īs this lesson is designed to be completed in one class period discussion pieces are limited, however, a teacher could incorporate a more explicit component to address limited resources in order to deepen their understanding about natural selection. The student activity addresses three of the four pieces of the performance expectation explicitly, however only briefly mentions competition for limited resources as it relates to the amount of space the mice have versus their rate of reproduction. This resource appears to be designed to build towards this performance expectation, though the resource developer has not explicitly stated so.Ĭomments about Including the Performance Expectation
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